Former USA Gymnastics doctor, Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 175 years in prison on sexual assault and abuse charges

After seven days of
listening to more than 160 girls, women and parents describe the impact of his
sexual abuse, disgraced gymnastics physician Larry Nassar turned to the
courtroom on Wednesday and quietly attempted an apology, saying, “There are no
words that can describe the depth and breadth for how sorry I am for what has
occurred.”

Then Judge Rosemarie
Aquilina read from a letter Nassar wrote last week in which he expressed very
different sentiments. In the letter, Nassar complained about the length of his
sentencing hearing, maintained that his touching of patients was legitimate
medical therapy and termed some of the alleged victims’ accounts “fabricated.”

“My treatments worked,
and those patients that are now speaking out were the same ones that praised
me,” Aquilina said as she read Nassar’s words. “. . . The media convinced them
that everything I did was wrong and bad. . . . Hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned.”

Finally, Aquilina
delivered her sentence a minimum of 40 years, a maximum of 175 years in a
Michigan state prison effectively guaranteeing a life sentence for the
54-year-old former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics team physician,
who also faces a 60-year sentence for federal child pornography crimes.

And with that, the
judge brought an end to an extraordinary sentencing hearing that introduced
fresh national attention and outrage to a case whose core facts have been well
established for nearly a year.

Former USA Gymnastics doctor, Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 175 years in prison on sexual assault and abuse charges
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